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793001

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date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what action his Department requires courts to take upon being notified that a defendant has given an invalid or unavailable bail address to the court.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>The decision to remand an individual in custody or to grant bail is solely a matter for the courts acting in accordance with the law. Where an individual has a condition of bail to reside at a particular address and it transpires that he is not, or may not, be living at that address, the court may notify the police who will investigate whether or not there has been a breach of bail conditions. If there is evidence of an alleged breach the individual can be arrested and brought before the court. The court may then either remand the individual in custody or amend the bail conditions.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 15/12/2017 12:34:30 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793002

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on (a) phones, (b) computers and (c) iPads in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) comprises many organisations including Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs). Each organisation holds separate contracts for these IT products and this information is not held or collated centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 28/11/2017 16:22:27 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793003

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison disturbances have been linked to the ban on tobacco use on the prison estate in each prison facility since that ban was implemented.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Maintaining order and control in our prisons is our priority and this large-scale project has been carefully managed. There is no evidence to link smoking as the causal factor in any incidents this year where national resources were deployed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:32:31 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793004

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department received representations from the Prison Governors Association on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate; and if he will place a copy of any such representations in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Prison Governors Association (PGA) made no representation on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate.</p><p>Throughout the roll out, the PGA have been briefed regularly on the progress of the project including details of the prisons which sit in each phase of the roll out.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:34:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793005

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department received representations from Action on Smoking and Health on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate; and if he will place a copy of any such representations in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>There have been no representations received from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate.</p><p> </p><p>The Director of ASH, Deborah Arnott is a member of the national smoke free prisons project board and is informed of the progress of the roll out.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:41:14 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793007

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether a risk assessment was conducted by his Department on the smoking ban in prisons before the roll-out of that ban.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government remains fully committed to making all prisons smoke free. The decision to go smoke free in every prison is only taken after careful planning and preparation and the final decision is only taken when each prison has met stringent checks to ensure that it is safe to do so and all necessary healthcare support is available to help prisoners give up smoking.</p><p> </p><p>The national roll out of the Smoke Free Prisons project has been actively managed under usual project management disciplines.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 29/11/2017 16:48:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793008

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the level of use of synthetic drugs in prisons in each of the the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <ul><li><p>Psychoactive substances are a significant driver of violence and instability in prisons. We have put in place a range of supply and demand reduction measures to address the availability and use of such harmful substances. This is based on a multi-agency approach working closely with health partners and law enforcement agencies. We are the first prison jurisdiction in the world to have developed a test for psychoactive substances, and have trained more than 300 sniffer dogs to specifically detect psychoactive substances. We have invested £3m in enhancing our intelligence capability to identify the organised crime groups and individuals behind supply routes, and are using this intelligence to work with the police to disrupt them.</p></li><li><p>Figures drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System suggest there were just under 10,000 incidents where psychoactive substances were found in prisons between October 2015 and October 2017 in England and Wales. Data prior to October 2015 cannot be provided as this is when a new incident type was introduced to the Incident Reporting System.</p></li><li><p>Testing for psychoactive substances was only in place across the whole prison estate from September 2016 onwards. Between October 2016 and March 2017, there were 27,277 random mandatory drug tests administered. Each sample taken is tested for a range of illicit drugs, including psychoactive substances. As these are random drugs tests, prisoners tested in a single month are unique, but an individual prisoner could be chosen in multiple months. Figures for 2017/18 will be published in the Annual HMPPS Digest in July 2018.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 114794 question first answered 28/11/2017 17:29:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793009

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drug Seizures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many seizures of synthetic drugs there have been in each prison in each of the last 3 years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <ul><li><p>Psychoactive substances are a significant driver of violence and instability in prisons. We have put in place a range of supply and demand reduction measures to address the availability and use of such harmful substances. This is based on a multi-agency approach working closely with health partners and law enforcement agencies. We are the first prison jurisdiction in the world to have developed a test for psychoactive substances, and have trained more than 300 sniffer dogs to specifically detect psychoactive substances. We have invested £3m in enhancing our intelligence capability to identify the organised crime groups and individuals behind supply routes, and are using this intelligence to work with the police to disrupt them.</p></li><li><p>Figures drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System suggest there were just under 10,000 incidents where psychoactive substances were found in prisons between October 2015 and October 2017 in England and Wales. Data prior to October 2015 cannot be provided as this is when a new incident type was introduced to the Incident Reporting System.</p></li><li><p>Testing for psychoactive substances was only in place across the whole prison estate from September 2016 onwards. Between October 2016 and March 2017, there were 27,277 random mandatory drug tests administered. Each sample taken is tested for a range of illicit drugs, including psychoactive substances. As these are random drugs tests, prisoners tested in a single month are unique, but an individual prisoner could be chosen in multiple months. Figures for 2017/18 will be published in the Annual HMPPS Digest in July 2018.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 114793 question first answered 28/11/2017 17:29:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793014

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Convictions: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Romanian, (b) Bulgarian, (c) Polish and (d) Croatian nationals were convicted of offences in the UK in each of the last 3 years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them. Since 2010 more than 38,000 have been removed from prisons, Immigration Removal Centres and the community, and last year a record number of over 6,300 were removed.</p><p> </p><p>Information on convictions in England and Wales for these four nationalities is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, information is available on the total number of foreign prisoners held by HM Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales; this can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017</a>. This information provides the total number of prisoners by nationality, with the total including unconvicted, convicted, and sentenced prisoners. In relation to convictions in Scotland and Northern Ireland, these are matters for the respective devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:32:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793015

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value is of criminal courts charges that have (a) been levied, (b) been paid, (c) been written off and (d) remained outstanding in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	114800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the total value of criminal courts charge imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding in England and Wales in the last 12 months</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Value Imposed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Value Collected regardless of Imposition date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Value Legally Cancelled regardless of Imposition date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Value Administratively Cancelled regardless of Imposition date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Value Outstanding regardless of Imposition date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year to 30/09/2017</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7,099,073</p></td><td><p>1,694,221</p></td><td><p>203,853</p></td><td><p>35,614,174</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The criminal courts charge was introduced in April 2015 and applied to all adult offenders. It was abolished on 24 December 2015 but impositions prior to that date remained outstanding. HM Courts and Tribunals service actively manages all outstanding court ordered financial impositions and uses a number of intelligence tools to identify and implement suitable enforcement sanctions against those who fail to comply with the order. Outstanding amounts can be taken from the offender’s benefits or earnings or if this is not possible warrants can be issued to recover the amounts owed. HMCTS remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been year on year increase in the total amount of financial imposition collected over the last five years. The amount of financial imposition collected has risen from £381m at the end of 2015/16 to a record of £440 million at the end of 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>Impositions can only be cancelled in one of two ways:</p><p>Legal cancellations which are at the direction of Judge or magistrate and are used where cases have been re-opened and the defendant has been found not guilty, following the presentation of additional information. Legal cancellations can be full or partial remittances of financial impositions.</p><p>Administrative cancellations which are non legal and can only be applied in very limited specific circumstances and in accordance with strict cancellation criteria for example when the defendant is deceased.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 01/12/2017 10:54:35 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies